Well, we did it again, everybody! Another April — and another National/Global Poetry Writing Month — have come and gone.
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
EVENTS | Write About Now
Write About Now was voted "Best Open Mic" in the country by the National Spoken Word Awards. Don't miss the best poetry events in Houston!
AI Dry July: Aborted
Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Like Totally Whatever
blackout poetry generator
Turns any web page into a work of procedurally generated blackout poetry!
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
A week of poetry, music, dancing, workshops, exhibits, conversations, food and fellowship, rooted in tradition but focused on today’s rural West.
#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
Writing With and Beyond AI: Fieldnotes from Computer-Mediated Poetry
Apr 10, 2026, 12:15 pm - Large language models can make writing mind-numbingly efficient — but the point of writing with AI should be to write what we couldn’t have written alone (without generating bland, derivative “slop”).
thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything
Happy July 4th! For those of us around the world contemplating independence, it's a good day to think about how we came to rely on expensiv...
The Essential June Jordan, Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller, eds. - Copper Canyon Press
The Essential June Jordan honors the enduring legacy of a poet fiercely dedicated to building a better world. In this definitive volume, featuring an afterword by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, June Jordan’s generous body of poetry is distilled and curated to represent the very best of her works. Written over the span of several decades―from Some Changes in 1971 to Last Poems in 2001―Jordan’s poems are at once of their era and tragically current, with subject matter including racist police brutality, violence against women, and the opportunity for global solidarity amongst people who are marginalized or outside of the norm. In these poems of great immediacy and radical kindness, humor and embodied candor, readers will (re)discover a voice that has inspired generations of contemporary poets to write their truths. June Jordan is a powerful voice of the time-honored movement for justice, a poet for the ages.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and…
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seve…
The Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
An Open Letter to CONCORD-DEEEP, CIVICUS, GCAP, Civic Society Organizations and Activists Working for a ‘Better’ World. This article is co-authored by Bayo Akomolafe and Marta Benavides. With deep gratitude for the stories of transformation now emerging across the planet, and for the renewed hope we share for a different kind of world, we greet you from our hearts.
I wrote about my #AtmosphereConf experience. I hope it's as cathartic to read as it was for me to write. Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience. All I wish is that we had more time.
The Joy of AtmosphereConf · augment
augment.inkMight I recommend this poem by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, which is a response to this sort of comment
Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Like Totally Whatever
youtu.beFinally finished writing, sorry 😭😅 It was honestly kinda fun to write stuff like this, I might continue by writing about other stuff too :O
ATmosphereConf 2026
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